Reef Friendly Urchins and Starfish

i know a few people that have been able to keep blue linkia in large reef tanks with no issues

 

Posted By cowdust9 on 06/09/2009 02:06 PM
i know a few people that have been able to keep blue linkia in large reef tanks with no issues Bob, stay away from Linkia starfish, this is an advanced starfish and very hard to keep.
Bout the best kind to get for starfish is Serpent Stars, very easy to keep as long as you don't have any starfish predators in your tank.
As far as Urchins, I try to go with long spin and Pencil urchans in my display, have trouble with the pincushions picking frags up off the rock and carrying them on their backs.  Once a coral grows to the rock they are safe from the pencil urchin.

 

In the magazine I just read they said the linkias are impossible for anyone but the most experienced reefers to keep. They go into depth about the fromia starfish family being the easiest, and they also have some really neat patterns. They don't talk about brittle/serpent stars but I know they are really easy to keep, I have 3 and they are thriving...

 

i had a long spine and got rid of him because he ate all the coraline algea in my tank and when he got big he kept knocking over and braking my corals